Common Milkweed Seed Distribution

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seed is being distributed through our webstore at http://happytonics.org/store/ .

We are also distributing seed to members of the Flower and Herb Exchange a branch of the Seed Savers Exchange.

Seniors in Minong, WI are letting milkweed grow in their gardens and at the senior center, and some of our local cattle ranches are letting milkweed grow in their fields.

This winter milkweed seed has been distributed to VA, WI, TX, and FL. Little by little the monarch is finding pockets of refuge with fellow gardeners who are helping to provide habitat for the monarch butterfly.

Planting Common Milkweed invites the monarch into the home landscape. Milkweed is the only host plant of the butterfly. The adult monarch leaves eggs on the host plant (Milkweed) and the next generation is born. The Monarch caterpillar (larva) only eats milkweed leaves, and adult Monarchs also nectar on the plant.